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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.Major, Richard Henry

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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Name: Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.
Author: Major, Richard Henry

Major, Richard Henry

Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels

DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH LAND, by Captain Samuel
   Volkersen, of the pink “Waeckende Boey,” which sailed from
   Batavia on the 1st of January 1658, and returned on the 19th of
   April of the same year. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague
   and translated from the Dutch                                      89

 EXTRACT TRANSLATED FROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN’S “Noord en Oost
   Tartarye”                                                          91

 ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER on the coast
   of New Holland, in 1687–88, being an extract from his “New Voyage
   round the World”                                                   99

 EXTRACT FROM SLOAN MS., 3236, entitled “The Adventures of William
   Dampier, with others [1686–87], who left Captain Sherpe in the
   South Seas, and travaled back over land through the country of
   Darien”                                                           108

 SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH to
   New Holland in 1696. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague
   and translated from the Dutch                                     112

 EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH
   LAND, by order of the Dutch East India Company, in the years 1696
   and 1697, by the hooker “De Nyptang,” the ship “De Geelvink,” and
   the galiot “De Wesel,” and the return to Batavia. From MS.
   Documents at the Hague: translated from the Dutch                 120

 ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER on the coast
   of New Holland, in 1699, being an extract from “a Voyage to New
   Holland, etc., in the year 1699”                                  134

 A WRITTEN DETAIL OF THE DISCOVERIES AND NOTICEABLE OCCURRENCES in
   the voyage of the fluyt “Vossenbosch,” the sloop “D’Waijer,” and
   the patsjallang “Nova Hollandia,” despatched by the government of
   India, anno 1705, from Batavia by way of Timor to New Holland.
   From MS. Documents at the Hague: translated from the Dutch        165

 THE HOUTMAN’S ABROLHOS in 1727, translated from a publication
   entitled “De Houtman’s Abrolhos,” by Captain P. A. Leupe, of the
   Dutch Navy                                                        176




                      INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BINDER.


 The Maps to be placed in the following order.

 Jave la Grande                                    _to face_ page xxvii.

 The Londe of Java                                 _to face_ page xxix.

 Tasman’s Track                                    _to face_ page xcvii.

 Coast visited by the Waeckende Boey and Emeloort,
   two maps                                        _to face_ page 81.

 Terra Australis                                   _to face_ page 200.

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                             INTRODUCTION.

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

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